On Wednesday, SCOTUSblog reporter Lyle Denniston told The Washington Post’s Sarah Kliff that “our number one ambition is to beat everybody” with news of the ruling. SCOTUSblog’s publisher, Tom Goldstein, said his ambition was to beat AP:

“The TV people out front literally won’t have it for about two minutes,” SCOTUSblog publisher and co-founder Tom Goldstein said. “After they hand it to Lyle, I expect 25 seconds after that, we’ll have it on the live blog. I would be surprised if the Associated Press can beat us.”

“Parsing it asap,” she wrote at 10:08, followed in the same minute by “The individual mandate survives as a tax.” At 10:10 Goldstein wrote, “So the mandate is constitutional. Chief Justice Roberts joins the left of the Court.” At 10:13, he wrote: “The bottom line: the entire ACA is upheld, with the exception that the federal government’s power to terminate states’ Medicaid funds is narrowly read.”

Reached by email, Goldstein said “I don’t yet know for sure” which news organization won the verdict race.

These races to be first are dangerous– there was a key abortion decision about 20 years ago when the same thing happened, at least one of the networks didn’t read through it and said Rowe v. Wade was overturned.